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As politics has become more tribal and geared toward demonization
instead of debate, it’s amazing how many important questions don’t seem
to be asked any more. Instead of discussing issues rationally, people
are stuck in little boxes based on where they fall on an issue.

Whatever
happened to actually assuming that there are two potentially legitimate
sides to a debate and hashing them out based upon which one makes more
sense? Of course, to do that, you’ve got to get beyond political
correctness to ask the basic questions -- questions that are deemed
racist, sexist, fascistic, etc., etc., as part of an effort to shut down
necessary conversations. At the end of the day, if you want to actually
prove someone wrong, you’ve got to engage him on his ideas and make
better, more logical points. If you can’t even handle the basic
questions so many people have, then maybe you don’t have the best
ideas.

1) Are we really doing transsexuals a favor by pretending
they can change into another gender and allowing them to mutilate
themselves via surgery or are we actually setting them up for failure
when we pretend that they’re not mentally ill?

2) Couldn’t you
make just as good an argument that America is a matriarchy as a
patriarchy? Life expectancy for women is 79 in the United States while
it’s 72 for men. Men are expected to pay for everything on dates. Men
are required to sign up for the draft; women are not. Divorce courts are
notoriously stacked against men. Fifty six percent of college students
are female and only 44% are male. In the United States, 78.8% of murder
victims are male. In 2015, men suffered 93% of the workplace fatalities.
In other words, if you want to claim one gender is at an advantage or
disadvantage in the United States, doesn’t it almost entirely depend
upon what factors you pay attention to and what factors you ignore?

“Prosecutors relied on a confession Ms. Salman gave F.B.I. agents in
which she admitted she had known about her husband acquiring weapons,
watching Islamic State videos and discussing possible locations in
apparent preparation for the June 12, 2016, attack. Defense lawyers
argued that Ms. Salman’s statement, obtained after more than 11 hours of
questioning without […]Read in browser »

At the 37th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
(UNHRC), multiple countries spoke to endorse one of the many anti-Israel
reports calling for a blacklist of companies doing business with Jews
who live east of the 1949 Armistice Line.

RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...for those who missed last nights show (or who just want to listen in again) where Craig Andresen andDiane Sori discussed John Bolton's appointment as National Security Advisor; the truth about
last weekend's anti-gun march; and important news of the day...you can listen to it at your convenience on SoundCloud at: https://soundcloud.com/right-side-patriots-260798913/rsp-arch-3-30-18

Friday, March 30, 2018

Here’s How A Liberal Father Whose Son Was Killed By An Illegal Alien Is Fighting CA’s Sanctuary Law

California could easily become ground zero for the immigration fight.
It became a sanctuary state earlier this year, prompting a Department
of Justice lawsuit, saying the state is hampering federal agencies
enforcing federal immigration laws. Los Alamitos already voted to opt out of the sanctuary law. Orange County Sheriff’s Department said that not only do they support the DOJ lawsuit against California’s sanctuary status, but will publicly post inmate release dates to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest illegals who
shouldn’t be here. Yet, for one father, the fight began almost ten years
ago. Don Rosenberg of Westlake Village, California, which rests outside
of Los Angeles, is not a raging Tea Party conservative. He’s a liberal.
His son, Drew, was also a liberal, went to college, spent a year in
London, and had visited San Francisco many times. Drew spoke highly of
then-Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom. On November 16, 2010, Roberto
Galo, killed his son in a motor accident. He was an unlicensed driver,
who had entered the country illegally, though the district attorney told
him that Galo had Temporary Protective Status. Rosenberg still
maintains that an illegal alien, who was spared the justice of the law,
killed his son...

Al-Qaeda top dog: “Jihad” is the “effective way” to defeat US, goal is to restore caliphateBy Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

Doubtless Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad and Ibrahim Hooper are on
their way now to visit Zawahiri and explain to him that jihad just means
dropping off the kids at school and getting to the gym regularly. “He
goes on to identify the primary goal of al-Qaeda’s jihad as restoring
the ‘rightly guided Caliphate’ and all […]Read in browser »

The Department of Justice’s inspector general just announced an
investigation into the Justice Department and the FBI to see if certain
members of those agencies violated federal law by surveilling a member
of President Donald Trump’s campaign team.

Remember when Trump said his campaign had been wiretapped and all the elites in the media and on the left howled and mocked?

Well now — here’s the next look at that whole matter.

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has kicked off the review in
response to requests from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and members of
Congress.

Today,
Friday, March 30th from 7 to 9pm EST on American
Political Radio,
RIGHT
SIDE PATRIOTS Craig
Andresen and Diane Sori discuss John Bolton's appointment as National
Security Advisor; the truth about last weekend's anti-gun march; and
important news of the
day.

John Bolton...A Man of Strength and CredibilityBy: Diane Sori / The Patriot
Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

"They’re all out there on
the public record. I've never been shy about what my views are. The
important thing is what the president says and what advice I give
him."

- Former U.N. Ambassador John
Bolton on any past statements made

He's gone...well almost anyway.
Now in the transition stage of turning his National Security Advisor
position over to former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton on April 9th, Lt.
Gen. H.R. McMaster, who will now also retire from his 34-years of
military service, cannot go soon enough as far as I'm concerned...and I'll go one step further...he never should have been appointed to
so vital a position in the first place, good little islamic condoner
that he is.

You
can read about those specifics in my article The
Manipulation of Willful Ignorance as I have been a vocal critic
of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster's appointment from the very day in March
2017 when President Trump announced that he'd be replacing embattled
Gen. Mike Flynn as National Security Advisor with this man instead of
John Bolton, the man some say Trump had always wanted.

And
who advised President Trump to choose McMaster...none other then
former Armed Services Committee Chair Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen.
Tom Cotton (R-AK), and Secretary of Defense General Mattis. And while Gen. Mattis looked at the appointment from a military
perspective alone and who has America's best interests at
heart, and with good guy Tom Cotton I believe being misled by John McCain, it was McCain, one of the biggest Trump bashers and one who I also believe to be a Deep State swamp dwelling operative, who not only advised but
pushed our new president into placing a fellow islamic condoner into a
position that would see him crafting U.S. foreign policy and
“framing”security
decisions that make it to the president's desk...security decisions
that have made us anything but more safe.

And while McMaster's leaving has
been fodder for the D.C. rumor mill for quite some time now what with
the rumors starting to affect his interactions with foreign officials
and with others within the Trump cabinet, especially with his contentious relationship with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis being no
secret...in fact McMaster has whined that Gen. Mattis “treats me
like a three-star rather than a coequal”...on the surface at least
it appears his leaving Trump's cabinet is quite amicable as Trump
publicly praised McMaster for his “outstanding job” and saying
that he would “always remain my friend.”

But that is something I seriously
doubt because Trump and McMaster were often at odds on both a
professional as well as on a personal level. Remember, as Commander-in-Chief, Trump pushed back hard against McMaster on his
decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan, and on the personal side
it is now suspected that it was someone in McMaster's orbit or even
McMaster himself who leaked to the press President Trump's congratulatory call
to Vladim Putin on his winning his latest election...a call most forget that
even Obama made when he was president. And that coupled with McMaster
being a man of many condescending words during the White House daily
briefings, it left Trump, according to some, needing to put the rigid
McMaster in his place on numerous occasions by telling him, “I get
it, general, I get it.” So it should come as no surprise that H.R.
McMaster, a military man truly not in the president's corner, had to
go.

But
know that John
Bolton...who held both State and Justice Department posts under President
Reagan and both President Bushes, including serving as
Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs at
the U.S. Department of State under President George W. Bush...is
a true professional who knows all the world's key players, how things are done,
and what games to play in order to get them done...done to America's
advantage that is...and is well-versed on issues both domestic
and on the foreign policy stage. Truly a much better all around fit
for President Trump than McMaster ever was, and a man who has stated
that he will “absolutely
go along with Trump,"
we have in John Bolton a strong willed, pro-military, unabashed
foreign policy hawk and 'so-called' neoconservative whose views on
issues like North Korea, Iraq and Syria will allow him together with
Donald Trump to seriously kick not only islamic butt but North
Korea's Kim Jong-un's butt as well.

And
with Bolton's naysayers like Sen. Christopher Coons of Delaware, a
liberal Democrat of course, saying that Bolton’s positions on Iran and
North Korea “are overly aggressive at best and downright dangerous
at worst,” you just know that President Trump has made the right
choice not only in picking Amb. Bolton to replace Gen. McMaster as
his National Security Advisor but in doing so right on the heels of
his replacing so out of his league Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
with C.I.A. Director Mike Pompeo. And with both these men now in
place to form the strongest national security team we have seen in
quite some time, you can be assured that changes in America's foreign
policy approach are not just down the road but are already here.

One case in point, Bolton knows
that the upcoming May talks between Trump and Kim Jong-un will not be
a panacea for peace as some, including McMaster, hope they would be
but that it will be just another in a long line of North Korea's dog
and pony shows. In fact, in regards to North Korea know that John
Bolton recently made a legal case for not only a pre-emptive strike
against North Korea but for regime change as well by calling the
man-child's regime an "imminent threat." So it should be
quite interesting to see how this now three man tour-de-force takes
on the oh so mad man-child with the oh so silly haircut.

And
in regards to Iran, Amb. Bolton is a staunch supporter of the Jewish
State of Israel and of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself, and
like Netanyahu, Bolton so rightfully wants President Trump to let
Obama's very bad nuclear deal... as in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA)...to fall by the wayside...a total 180ᴼ
departure from the wishes of Obama supporting, Palestinian
supporting, Lt. Gen. McMaster. Writing
an article last October in The Hill titled, Mr.
President, don't put America at risk with flawed Iran deal...Amb.
Bolton's words were in direct contrast to those of Gen. McMaster who
urged President Trump not to abandon said deal warning him of serious consequences if he did.

But could McMaster's argument
pass the proverbial 'smell test'...I don't think so and neither does
Amb. Bolton who hopefully will now convince President Trump to see it
his way and pull us out of a deal that should never have been signed
in the first place. Saying that trashing the deal will of course
“spur Iran to accelerate its nuclear-weapons program to rush across
the finish line,” but even that means nothing in the scope of
things for trashing the deal will not “induce Iran” to become
more threatening or supportive of global terrorism than it already is.
The real issue is how much worse Iran’s behavior will be once it
gets deliverable nuclear weapons...something that McMaster never
understood.

“President Trump continues to
appoint true friends of Israel to senior positions. John Bolton is
one of the most outstanding.” So said Israeli said Justice Minister
Ayelet Shaked

Now as far as Israel itself is
concerned, with Israel being a key if not 'the' key player in the
Middle East, John Bolton is rightly perceived as a man of action and
a “stalwart friend of Israel.” His appointment also suggests to
many in Israel that on May 12th...when the next scheduled deadline
regarding the nuclear deal is reached...President Trump will indeed withdraw us from the 'very bad'
Iranian nuclear deal.

And Amb. John Bolton is also opposed to a two-state solution in regards to the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict as opposed to Gen. McMaster who not only publicly pushed for a two-state solution but who just about demanded
it by his constantly referring to a Palestinian state existing before
1947. Fact: there never was a Palestinian state and hopefully there never
will be one. And let's not forget that it was Gen. McMaster who had described Israel on many occasions as being both
“illegitimate” and an “occupying power.” But with Bolton's
appointment we and Israel will see not only a tougher U.S. stance
towards the Palestinians, but also a new beginning for much needed
sound American leadership throughout the entirety of the Middle East
region...leadership that sees America standing by her allies not
deserting them or stabbing them in the back as Obama did to
Israel...and as McMaster, in my opinion, really wanted to do in regards
to Israel.

As for the domestic stage, the
differences between the two men can also be seen as it was McMaster
who allowed for Obama cabinet official Susan Rice to retain her top
security clearance even after she was accused of conducting illegal
surveillance on American citizens...something Bolton would never have
done as he has been a staunch critic of Susan Rice ever since she
went on her Sunday morning talk show 'Benghazi blame game tour' if
you will.

And when just a few weeks ago
McMaster said there was “incontrovertible’’ evidence of a
Russian plot to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election not only did he draw
an immediate public rebuke from the tweet trigger finger of President
Trump, but he saw John Bolton coming to the president's defense by
saying on FOX News that he's been a long time skeptic of Russian
interference in the presidential election and that all the media brouhaha
over such nonsense was was nothing but a "false flag"
operation...an operation showing no signs of Russia's fixing or
tampering with the election results. And notice how I say fixing or
tampering with not trying to influence which is a totally different
animal. Bolton knew that critical difference...McMaster obviously did
not. And dare we forget McMaster's publicly offered but widely
scrutinized 'non-denial' denial that President Trump shared
classified intelligence with Russians in the Oval Office.

A man so obviously not in Trump's
corner...a man that should have been let go months ago...a man who
never should have been appointed in the first place, but hey,
non-politician Donald Trump is indeed allowed to make some mistakes.
But in his now choosing Amb. John Bolton as the replacement for Gen.
H.R. McMaster as his National Security Advisor, know that no mistakes
have been made for John Bolton, who called the appointment "an
honor" and said that he looks "forward to working with
President Trump and his leadership team" to "make our
country safer at home and stronger abroad,” both President Trump
and 'We the People' have in John Bolton a man who will put America
first and who will not be ashamed to do so.

***************************************** For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article A Manufactured March for Madness

Today,
Friday, March 30th from 7 to 9pm EST on American
Political Radio,
RIGHT
SIDE PATRIOTS Craig
Andresen and Diane Sori discuss John Bolton's appointment as National Security Advisor; the truth about last weekend's anti-gun march; and important news of the
day.

Gun control might be on everyone’s minds, or at least those in
America’s newsrooms, but we have yet another development in the ongoing
and increasingly comical investigation into whether the Trump campaign
colluded with the Russians. There are new texts allegedly showing that
the Obama White House, the CIA, the FBI, and top Democrats colluded at
the outset of the Russia probe. FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who initiated
this investigation in July of 2016, sent them to his mistress and bureau
lawyer Lisa Page. That effort is now to be headed by Special Counsel
Robert Mueller. Strzok became a centerpiece of this whole saga since his
extramarital affair with Page brought the probe’s credibility in
question and that of the FBI itself.

Strzok texted Page saying that certain cyber intelligence should be given to the Obama White House on August 8, 2016.

“Internal
joint cyber cd intel piece for D, scenesetter for McDonough brief,
Trainer [head of FBI cyber division] directed all cyber info be pulled.
I’d let Bill and Jim hammer it out first, though it would be best for D
to have it before the Wed WH session,” he said.

The people who were injured — Passover shoppers — and the fact that the
car crashed right next to a kosher food shop suggests that this was
vehicular jihad. A billboard in Nazareth that actually called for such
attacks, as did “moderate” Fatah in 2014. And the Islamic State
issued this call in September 2014: So […]Read in browser »

Study: Nearly 22K Died While on Medicaid Waiting List

NEWSMAX

Nearly 22,000 people on Medicaid waiting lists in expansion states
have died since Obamacare began providing health insurance to qualifying
adults, according to a study released in early March by the Foundation for Government Accountability.

The FGA documented deaths in 13 states: Arkansas, California,
Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,
Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, as many other
states did not track waiting list deaths or provided partial responses.

Maryland had the most deaths at 8,495, and individuals there had to
wait an average of 7.5 years to be approved for services. In Louisiana,
where the wait is up to 6.5 years, 5,534 died while waiting to be
approved for Medicaid.

The Affordable Care Act is in its fifth full year of expansion, and
coverage under Medicaid expansion became effective Jan. 1, 2014 in the
33 states that adopted it. The average wait time in New Mexico has
reached 10.2 years.

This is most welcome and long overdue. Those who were not willing to
carry out President Trump’s agenda should have been fired on January 21,
2017. When before in American history have the staffers of a previous
administration been left in place to sabotage the subsequent
administration?
And when that administration was Obama’s post-American
presidency, this becomes even more dangerous. Bolton is the right man
for the job, and we can hope he will be able to do it thoroughly and
without interference from Obama loyalists.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Resistance
to California’s new sanctuary city laws grew this week as Orange County
voted to join a federal lawsuit trying to block the laws, and the
county’s sheriff said he will post information on every inmate’s release
so the Homeland Security Department can see if there is anyone it wants
to deport.

The Who’s in Jail database could provide a model for
other law enforcement agencies chafing under SB54, the law that took
effect this year prohibiting police or sheriffs from informing federal
agencies when illegal immigrants are to be released.

By posting
the entire list of inmates and release times, the department says, U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement can get the information without the
sheriff’s office having to communicate specifically.

The
county’s board of supervisors added its voice to the resistance as
well, voting Tuesday to condemn SB54 and asking county attorneys to join
the Trump administration in a lawsuit seeking to block SB54 and two
other sanctuary laws.

“We’re not talking here about law-abiding
immigrants; we’re talking about criminals,” said Michelle Steel, a board
member and an immigrant. “This SB54 is unconstitutional.”

“I faxed– I emailed them, probably between my mother and my father and
me, between 50 and 100 complaints. I was emailing him questions. I was
forwarding him all these emails. I was demanding answers from him. And I
never got anything back.” Yes, that’s today’s corrupt, clueless and
compromised FBI, all right. To this […]Read in browser »

The United Nations has set Europe on notice and told powers-who-be to
prepare for yet another wave of refugees — or mostly Muslim refugees,
to be specific.

Call it the total collapse of European culture and society.

World
Food Programme executive director David Beasley said in a recent
interview with the Associated Press that ISIS is currently moving from
the Middle East to North Africa.
And that means those in the countries’ crosshairs have to prepare for a population fall-out.

Trump Sends Letter to Family of Parkland Victim - Here's What It Says

President Trump wrote a letter to the family of one of the victims of
the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, thanking them for
coming to the White House a week after the shooting to attend a
listening session.
The letter was posted on Twitter by Meadow
Pollack’s brother, Hunter. Meadow was among the 17 killed in the
February 14 shooting at the school.

“Our entire Nation mourns the
tragic loss of Meadow. Our hearts are heavy for you and your entire
family,” the March 12 letter says.

“I am deeply grateful for your
presence at the White House for discussions regarding school safety. I
was touched by the memories of Meadow you shared. It was clear that she
had a bright future, full of tremendous potential—I know that you were so proud of her,” Trump wrote

“We will not forget her life, and we are resolved to confront the evil that so senselessly took her from us,” he added.

Meadow’s father, Andrew, a Trump supporter, asked the president last month to put an end to school shootings once and for all.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) confirmed Monday that it is
investigating Facebook's privacy practices after a week of data sharing
scandals, including sharing personal user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica and collecting phone records from Android users.

Tom
Pahl, acting FTC bureau chief for consumer protection, said in a
statement that the FTC is investigating Facebook’s privacy practices:

“The
FTC is firmly and fully committed to using all of its tools to protect
the privacy of consumers. Foremost among these tools is enforcement
action against companies that fail to honor their privacy promises,
including to comply with Privacy Shield, or that engage in unfair acts
that cause substantial injury to consumers in violation of the FTC Act.
Companies who have settled previous FTC actions must also comply with
FTC order provisions imposing privacy and data security requirements.
Accordingly, the FTC takes very seriously recent press reports raising
substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook. Today, the
FTC is confirming that it has an open non-public investigation into
these practices.”

Muslim in Sweden appealed for donations for ISIS for two years on Facebook, his account was not deletedBy Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

Facebook was probably too busy working on ways to block access to
accounts that oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression. Referrals to
Jihad Watch from Facebook have dropped from over 20,000 a day in 2015
and 2016 to almost nothing — because we violate their hard-Left criteria
for what is acceptable speech. This fellow, however, […]Read in browser »